All jobs should be designed around teams
... The purpose of Tuckman’s Model of Group Development is to explain how teams are formed. ... With that said, it is impossible for teams to coexist peacefully 100% of the time. However, teams can be on friendly terms if they are properly managed. How teams are managed depends on the capacity of their leaders. ... - Main Body: *Self-Managed Teams Self-managed teams are a key component of teams. ... *Advantages of team designed jobs One advantage of working as a team is that members can compare ideas with each other. ... Participating in self-managed teams also has an advantage. According to a review of three meta-analysis covering 70 individual studies, self-managed teams have a positive effect on productivity and on specific attitudes relating to self-management (Kinicki & Kreitner, pg 213). Advantages of working in teams are further expanded below. The first four stages of the Tuckman model: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing can help explain the advantages of team designed jobs (Kinicki & Kreitner, pg 205): * Forming helps members to learn to properly interact with each other and have a general ideal of each person’s role. ... WHY WORK IN TEAMS? ... Why do all successful companies have well seasoned teams? What do teams do that individuals fail to achieve on their own? ... Well, successful firms have come to realize the advantages of employees working in teams. The advantages are in two categories and they are as follows: Advantage to the Organization - 1) The need to build an organizational culture 2) Creating an environment of free flow of information between team members – the more technical members are forced to carry their team members along 3) The fact that employees tend to give their best when they feel they hold their destinies in their hands 4) Creating an atmosphere that encourages collective decisions 5) Creating an atmosphere of healthy competition between the various teams in the company, thus leading to a higher quality of work 6) Elimination of the need for costly rework due to individual mistakes since other team members will serve as a check/balance Advantage to the Individual - 1) The need to foster a cordial working relationship between team members, even after completion of the assigned task 2) There is no winner or loser member within the team –all the team members partake in the trials and tribulations of the team 3) The fact that no employee will feel they are indispensable since a culture of task interchange would have been created –eventually, everyone would be “multipurpose” 4) Teams work better since individual members are assigned specific tasks within the team.